Who touched the "cheese" of the peasants?
In the vast fields, the golden wheat waves rolled, which should have been a picture of a good harvest. However, Lao Zhang, a farmer, frowned, squatted on the ground and smoked dry tobacco, calculating the income and expenditure of this season. The prices of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides are rising, while the purchase price of grain is climbing slowly like a snail. Lao Zhang couldn't help but sigh, if this continues, what else can be made from growing grain?
This is not Lao Zhang's confusion alone. In recent years, with the advancement of marketization, farmers are faced with more and more choices. Whether to continue to stick to grain cultivation or to switch to more lucrative cash crops? Whether to sell the green reserves or to wait until the grain is ripe to sell it? Every choice has a direct bearing on the peasants' vital interests.
Some people say that farmers should think about the country's food security and not just focus on immediate benefits. This sounds high-sounding, but it evades a core question: How can the peasants' economic interests in growing grain be guaranteed? Is it possible to make the peasants willingly bear economic losses just by saying "for the sake of the country"? This is obviously unrealistic.
We need to confront this problem head-on and come up with practical solutions. First of all, it is necessary to clarify who should pay the difference in price to the peasants. Is it the market, or the government, or is it the consumer? This question needs to be considered and answered by all sectors of society. We should not just ask the peasants to sacrifice their own interests for the sake of the overall situation, but should establish a fair and reasonable mechanism for the distribution of benefits.
In the tide of the market economy, the allocation of resources will naturally tend to be in areas that can produce higher efficiency. We can see that the income gap between urban and rural areas is still wide, which reflects the fact that resources are not optimally allocated. As the basic stratum of society, the interests of the peasants should not be neglected.
Solving the problem of resource allocation is the fundamental way. We need to make food production a profitable industry through policy support, technical support and market regulation. Only in this way will the peasants be willing to continue to devote themselves to grain production, and the country's food security will be fundamentally guaranteed.
We cannot ignore the realities of the plight faced by farmers. Against the backdrop of rising prices for agricultural production materials such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, simply growing food is likely to mean losses. Under such circumstances, how can we ask farmers to continue to stick to food production?
At the same time, we need to be wary of simple and crude solutions. For example, the forced return of forests to farmland. This may temporarily increase food production, but if it does not solve the problem of unprofitable food cultivation for farmers, it will only end up barren land again.
We need to carry out in-depth reforms in terms of the mechanism for forming agricultural prices and agricultural subsidy policies. Only in this way can we fundamentally change the logic of the peasants' decision-making on grain planting and arouse their enthusiasm for growing grain.
The issue of resource redistribution is a complex and sensitive issue. We need to stand in the position of the peasants and truly understand their hardships and needs, so that we can formulate policies and measures that conform to the laws of the market and can protect the interests of the peasants.
Let's work together to fight for the "cheese" that farmers deserve, and also to build a solid barrier for the country's food security. Only in this way can we see the heartfelt smiles of the farmers in the golden wheat waves.
In closing, I would like to ask: Who touched the "cheese" of the peasants? This question is not only an economic issue, but also a question of social fairness and justice. We need to answer with actions, protect with policies, and feel with our hearts. This is because the interests of the peasants are the interests of each of us, and the happiness of the peasants is the happiness of each of us. Let's work together for a fairer and more prosperous agricultural future!